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| Genetic Roots of the Ashkenazi Jews | |
| By: AGelbert Date: October 10, 2013, 12:25 am | |
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| Genetic Roots of the Ashkenazi JewsGenetic Roots of the | |
| Ashkenazi Jews | |
| Most Ashkenazi Jews, traditionally believed to have descended | |
| from the ancient tribes of Israel, may in fact be maternally | |
| descended from prehistoric Europeans. | |
| By Kate Yandell | October 8, 2013 | |
| The majority of Ashkenazi Jews are descended from prehistoric | |
| European women, according to study published today (October 8 ) | |
| in Nature Communications. While the Jewish religion began in the | |
| Near East, and the Ashkenazi Jews were believed to have origins | |
| in the early indigenous tribes of this region, new evidence from | |
| mitochondrial DNA, which is passed on exclusively from mother to | |
| child, suggests that female ancestors of most modern Ashkenazi | |
| Jews converted to Judaism in the north Mediterranean around | |
| 2,000 years ago and later in west and central Europe. | |
| The Ashkenazi Jews make up the majority of Jews today and most | |
| recently have ancestry in central or Eastern Europe. Previous | |
| work has demonstrated that just four mitochondrial types, pass | |
| down from four mothers, account for 40 percent of variation in | |
| Ashkenazi Jews� mitochondrial DNA, and some researchers have | |
| published evidence of Near Eastern origins for these Ashkenazi | |
| mitochondrial types. | |
| http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/37821/title/Genetic-Root… | |
| Remember the above the next time someone says being against | |
| Israeli fascism is being "Anti-Semitic". It is rather impossible | |
| to be Anti-Semitic towards people like Netanyahu (an Ashkenazi) | |
| simply because he and most Israelis are not descended from | |
| Semitic people. | |
| But the Palestinians ARE Semitic people. So now you know who the | |
| REAL anti-semites are. :o | |
| #Post#: 123-------------------------------------------------- | |
| we in the USA are paying for the only open ethnocracy in the wor | |
| ld: ISRAEL | |
| By: AGelbert Date: October 20, 2013, 6:12 pm | |
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| Exposing the Dark Underbelly of Israel: The Horrors Your Tax | |
| Dollars Support | |
| Max Blumenthal's new book "Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater | |
| Israel" details the horrific reality Israel has created for the | |
| Palestinian people. | |
| October 16, 2013 | | |
| Drop the New York Times� international section and pick up Max | |
| Blumenthal�s new book. If you want to peel back the layers of | |
| deception pro-Israel groups and the media have created, Goliath: | |
| Life and Loathing in Greater Israel is the perfect place to | |
| start. It�s the bluntest book you�ll read about the state of | |
| Israeli society, as it looks deep into the soul of an ethnocracy | |
| that dominates the lives of millions of Palestinians. | |
| Blumenthal�s book, based on four years of on-the-ground | |
| reporting and research, takes the reader from the occupied West | |
| Bank to prisons for African refugees to Palestinian areas within | |
| Israel. Through a series of profiles and vignettes, he paints a | |
| devastating portrait of a country obsessed with demographics | |
| bent on permanently subjugating the non-Jews who live between | |
| the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. | |
| Last week, AlterNet sat down with Blumenthal for a conversation | |
| about his book. We spoke about the current state of Israeli | |
| society, his method of reporting and what readers will learn | |
| about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as negotiations with | |
| Iran and the Palestinians continue. | |
| Alex Kane: The headlines are largely dominated by other | |
| political problems in the Middle East: Egypt, Syria. So what�s | |
| the importance of a book on Israel at this moment? | |
| Max Blumenthal: I wrote this book because I wanted to show | |
| Americans what they�re paying for. Every American's relationship | |
| to Israel can be summed up as money for nothing and checkpoints | |
| for free. We�re giving them $30 billion over the next 10 years | |
| to guarantee their qualitative military edge over all other | |
| countries. We also have to see Israel�s role in destabilizing | |
| the Middle East and in seeking to ensure that U.S. policy | |
| guarantees that Israel�s Arab neighbors are weakened and that | |
| the people of the Arab world can�t determine their own future. | |
| That�s why Israel had such a comfortable relationship with Hosni | |
| Mubarak�because he was a Western and Gulf puppet who was helping | |
| to participate in the siege of Gaza and why Israel is so excited | |
| about the coup that ousted Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood. The | |
| Brotherhood might have ceded to US demands to police the Sinai, | |
| but now with Sisi, the crackdown on Gaza is much more extreme. | |
| They have filled up possibly 80 percent of the tunnels that | |
| bring vital food and medicine and even fish into the Gaza Strip, | |
| which is shocking considering that the Gaza Strip is a coastal | |
| territory -- they must import fish through tunnels because | |
| they�re not allowed to fish. And now we're seeing Egyptian naval | |
| forces join the Israeli navy in arresting Gazan fishermen. | |
| Now the coup regime in Egypt has committed a series of massacres | |
| which were inevitable as soon as they took power on July 3. They | |
| massacred non-violent Muslim Brotherhood demonstrators, | |
| especially in the Rabba area of Cairo--they killed over 1,000 | |
| people. And the U.S. has been threatening to withdraw some | |
| military aid to Egypt--of course, they�re not going to fully | |
| hold this regime accountable for the massive human rights crimes | |
| it's committing. And Israel all the while has been demanding | |
| veto power over the United States� efforts to hold Egypt | |
| accountable. The Israeli government is enthralled with Sisi's | |
| coup regime and the Egyptian military, and it will do all it can | |
| to see the US fund it and prevent it from being held | |
| accountable. So to see Israel as this normal, European country | |
| that exists completely independently of the chaos in the Middle | |
| East is completely bogus. | |
| And the other reason is much more simple: that we are paying for | |
| the only open ethnocracy in the world, and its entire existence | |
| and its domination and control over the lives of millions of | |
| Palestinians and the exclusion of millions more Palestinians | |
| simply because they�re not Jews. The whole fate of all these | |
| people who are living between the river and the sea, mired in | |
| misery and refugee camps, is in the hands of the American people | |
| and Washington. | |
| [I]That was page 1 of an 8 page blockbuster article at AlterNet. | |
| Read the rest here[/I] | |
| http://www.alternet.org/world/interview-max-blumenthal-goliath-life-and-loathin… | |
| /> | |
| #Post#: 1228-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Pope Francis Prays at Apartheid Wall, Calls for Palestinian Stat | |
| e | |
| By: AGelbert Date: May 26, 2014, 5:00 pm | |
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1LMCayrJ-8&feature=player_embedded | |
| Pope Francis Prays at Apartheid Wall, Calls for Palestinian | |
| State | |
| Posted on May 26, 2014 | |
| This post originally ran on Juan Cole�s Web page. | |
| On Sunday in Bethlehem, Pope Francis called for recognition of | |
| an independent Palestinian state. CNN reports that he asked | |
| for �the acknowledgment by all of the right of two states to | |
| exist and to live in peace and security within internationally | |
| recognized borders.� | |
| http://www.pic4ever.com/images/19.gif | |
| http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/pope_francis_calls_for_palestinian_… | |
| #Post#: 1342-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Genetic Roots of the Ashkenazi Jews | |
| By: AGelbert Date: June 10, 2014, 9:47 pm | |
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| http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYDB1nSj91c&feature=player_embedded<br | |
| /> | |
| [img width=640 | |
| height=480] | |
| http://www.sott.net/image/image/s5/112712/full/Israeli_soldiers_detain_mother.j… | |
| [img width=640 | |
| height=580] | |
| http://www.salem-news.com/stimg/november182012/israeli_soldiers.jpg[/img] | |
| This terrified child has wetted his pants! [img width=120 | |
| height=60] | |
| http://images.zaazu.com/img/Incredible-Hulk-animated-animation-male-smiley-emot… | |
| [img width=640 | |
| height=420] | |
| http://previous.presstv.ir/photo/20130209/geraphian20130209140514381.jpg[/img] | |
| [img width=640 | |
| height=580] | |
| http://desertpeace.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/child1.jpeg[/img] | |
| [img width=640 | |
| height=520] | |
| http://www.ccun.org/images/2008/June/22%20p/israeli%20soldiers%20abducting%20pa… | |
| [img width=640 | |
| height=480] | |
| http://intifada-palestine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/42780161_picgall_pales… | |
| [img width=640 | |
| height=580] | |
| http://lh3.ggpht.com/_8ZLZsV89Ns0/TUhQv9VLRcI/AAAAAAAABPE/YW6pfWBWO0w/s800/pale… | |
| [img width=640 | |
| height=450] | |
| http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__M55ytObmXQ/TRzBBeT_cgI/AAAAAAAAAHI/1eHy_VUD-bM/s1600… | |
| [img width=640 | |
| height=850] | |
| http://occupiedpalestine.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/nisreenabuhashash.jpg?w=58… | |
| This BARBARISM! | |
| http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-looney-toons-008.gif | |
| [move]YOUR TAX DOLLARS IN ACTION.[img width=100 | |
| height=080] | |
| http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000370273/polls_Smiley_Angry_256x256_3451_3561… | |
| />"AID" to ISRAEL NOW![/I] | |
| http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/tuzki-bunnys/tuzki-bunny-emoticon-028.gif<… | |
| />[/move] | |
| #Post#: 1519-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Genetic Roots of the Ashkenazi Jews | |
| By: AGelbert Date: July 12, 2014, 5:52 pm | |
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| [move][font=courier][b]Twitter photo showing Israelis 'cheering' | |
| Gaza bombing goes viral [/b][/font][/move] | |
| http://www.jpost.com/Operation-Protective-Edge/Twitter-photo-showing-Israelis-c… | |
| [quote]The image was retweeted over 8,000 times as of Saturday | |
| afternoon, with many reacting with shock and disgust.[/quote] | |
| I celebrate this reaction. But will the Jews of good will in the | |
| USA start doing elementary math and add TWO (US financing of | |
| Israeli Barbarism) + (Barre Seid Israel champion type | |
| billionaires financing both Israel AND GW denial) = Psychotic | |
| Suicidal Fascist F**ks for a F***ed up planet? | |
| Will they decide to reject the "modern" accepted and "rational" | |
| apex predator world view that S**T CANNED ETHICS for SHORT TERM | |
| PROFITS is the way DARWIN and FREUD "proved" a species ensures | |
| viability for its future generations? | |
| OR, will they accept the death of billions of humans so a few | |
| million Israel firsters MIGHT survive a biosphere collapse that | |
| will make an economic world collapse look like the difference | |
| between the Mount St. Helens eruption and a riot at a rock | |
| concert? | |
| Will they see the DANGER to Homo SAP of so many biosphere | |
| species extinctions along with a radical reduction in DNA | |
| diversity among humans when reduced to Jewish, mostly Ashkenazi, | |
| genotypes? | |
| Or, will they CELEBRATE "WINNING" the HUMAN REPRODUCTIVE | |
| LOTTERY? | |
| Those are NOT a rhetorical questions... | |
| AND the economic WORLD power to vote with their MONEY is nothing | |
| to sniff at. | |
| [quote]count of Forbes Israel�s list, with Jewish billionaires | |
| as a fraction of the country�s total number of billionaires: | |
| US 105/442 = 24% | |
| Israel 16/16 = 100% | |
| Russia 12/99 = 12% | |
| Canada 6/29 = 21% | |
| Brazil 6/45 = 13% | |
| UK 5/37 = 14% | |
| Ukraine 3/10 = 30% | |
| Monaco 3/3 = 100% | |
| Australia 3/22 = 14% | |
| Spain 2/20 = 10% | |
| France 2/24 = 8% | |
| Germany 1/58 = 2% | |
| Hong Kong 1/39 = 3% | |
| http://takimag.com/article/jewish_wealth_by_the_numbers_steve_sailer/print#ixzz… | |
| [/quote] | |
| Our very survival as a species may depend on whether the Jews of | |
| good will in this country (and the world) decide that math | |
| trumps blind Lemming Loyalty and use their political clout to | |
| help stop BOTH murderous outrages to common decency. | |
| Never mind just the billionaires, the rest of the ethnically | |
| Jewish in our country pack a gigantic political clout. The | |
| CHOSEN PEOPLE are NOW the CHOOSING PEOPLE. | |
| You had better hope the oft repeated saying, "But is it good for | |
| Jews? (i.e. whatever ISRAEL wants, ISRAEL gets.)" is modified to | |
| "Is it good for a VIABLE BIOSPHERE so the Jews have a FUTURE?". | |
| http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-object-062.gif | |
| If | |
| not, HOMO SAP is definitely going the Guy McPherson route. [img | |
| width=30 | |
| height=30] | |
| http://www.freesmileys.org/emoticons/emoticon-object-015.gif[/img](<br | |
| />[img width=30 | |
| height=30] | |
| http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_2955.gif[/img]<br | |
| />[img width=30 | |
| height=30] | |
| http://www.desismileys.com/smileys/desismileys_2953.gif[/img] | |
| It is ironic that the CHOSEN people's CHOICE may be the STRAW | |
| that breaks the biosphere camel's "BACK", so to sadly speak. :( | |
| [move]God help us...[/move] | |
| #Post#: 1520-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Re: Genetic Roots of the Ashkenazi Jews | |
| By: AGelbert Date: July 12, 2014, 5:56 pm | |
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| [move][font=courier]Barre Seid | |
| http://www.pic4ever.com/images/acigar.gif | |
| http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-311013201314.png<br | |
| />has admitted to being the big money behind the climate-denying | |
| Heartland Institute.[/font][/move] | |
| http://www.biu.ac.il/bot/10/imagesHonDoc/Barre-Seid.jpg | |
| [img width=610 | |
| height=220] | |
| http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Bzb-1rVB8pc/UfXxBekcYVI/AAAAAAAAEm4/hXUkGCzFIPg/s1600… | |
| Another one of those people the fossil fuelers admire for | |
| "DOING" so much to "earn" their wealth and "honored" place | |
| among human apex predatory ****s. >:( | |
| Yeah, I know. Despite the fact that I am part Jewish, I am about | |
| to be called an "anti-Semite"! | |
| http://www.pic4ever.com/images/ugly004.gif | |
| http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/11/1313218/-Heartland-s-Anonymous-Donor-R… | |
| The pollution and GW we being assaulted with are SYMPTOMS of the | |
| DISEASE killing our biosphere, not the disease itself. | |
| If we don't seriously address this DISEASE of S**t Canned Ethics | |
| for Short Term Profits | |
| http://www.pic4ever.com/images/www_MyEmoticons_com__burp.gif | |
| of | |
| the fossil fuel FOOLS that are despoiling our biosphere and | |
| accelerating planetary pollution, the big die offs (including | |
| large segments of the human population) begin at 2030. | |
| The DIRTY ENERGY SOURCES long history of profiting from our | |
| blood and treasure while they despoil the biosphere. | |
| The following quote from a peer reviewed book is of extreme | |
| importance to all Americans: | |
| Dilworth (2010-03-12). Too Smart for our Own Good (pp. 399-400). | |
| Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition. | |
| [quote]"As suggested earlier, war, for example, which represents | |
| a cost for society, is a source of profit to capitalists. In | |
| this way we can partly understand e.g. the American military | |
| expenditures in the Persian Gulf area. Already before the first | |
| Gulf War, i.e. in 1985, the United States spent $47 billion | |
| projecting power into the region. If seen as being spent to | |
| obtain Gulf oil, It AMOUNTED TO $468 PER BARREL, or 18 TIMES the | |
| $27 or so that at that time was paid for the oil itself. | |
| In fact, if Americans had spent as much to make buildings | |
| heat-tight as they spent in ONE YEAR at the end of the 1980s on | |
| the military forces meant to protect the Middle Eastern oil | |
| fields, THEY COULD HAVE ELIMINATED THE NEED TO IMPORT OIL from | |
| the Middle East. | |
| So why have they not done so? Because, while the $468 per barrel | |
| may be seen as being a cost the American taxpayers had to bear, | |
| and a negative social effect those living in the Gulf area had | |
| to bear, it meant only profits for American capitalists. | |
| "[/quote] >:( | |
| Note: I added the bold caps emphasis on the barrel of oil price, | |
| money spent in one year and the need to import oil from the | |
| Middle East. | |
| This totally unjustified profit, never mind the needless lose of | |
| lives, then increases the power of the fossil fuel corporations | |
| to perpetuate a biosphere harming dirty fuel status quo. How? By | |
| "funding" politicians with rather large "donations" to keep | |
| renewable energy from competing with dirty energy. | |
| If all this was just about power politics, I might not be that | |
| concerned. Humans, particularly the overly ambitious and | |
| aggressive ones, have always fought and schemed to control and | |
| fleece the population at large. | |
| But now we know the future of our biosphere is at stake. Now we | |
| know the entire edifice of dirty energy is a knife in the back | |
| of the biosphere that will destroy our species and many others. | |
| The system, as defined by the fossil fuel fascist dystopia that | |
| currently runs most of the human affairs among the 1 billion | |
| population in the developed world that is saddling the other 6 | |
| billion, who are totally free of guilt for causing it, with this | |
| climate horror we are beginning to experience, IS quite stubborn | |
| and does not wish to change the status quo. | |
| Mother nature will force it to do so. | |
| Whether it is done within the next two decades or not (i.e. a | |
| switch to 100% PLUS bioremediation Renewable Energy steady state | |
| economy) will dictate the size of the consequent die off, not | |
| only of humans but thousands of other species as well. | |
| We are now in a climate cake that has been baked for about 1,000 | |
| years according to atmospheric, objective, proven with | |
| experimental data, science. | |
| If the crash program to switch to renewable energy is to begin | |
| soon, I expect the trigger for the crash program will be the | |
| first ice free arctic summer (according to my estimates) in | |
| 2017. But millions of people demanding a transition to 100% | |
| renewable Energy will give us a fighting chance to win the | |
| Climate Victory. | |
| You can help us leave dirty energy sources that are killing us | |
| behind. I started a petition on Care2: Demand Liberty From | |
| Fossil Fuels Through 100% Renewable Energy WWII Style Effort. | |
| I'm hoping that if enough people sign my petition, we can make a | |
| difference. I have 271 signatures. Will you help me collect more | |
| by adding your name? | |
| Posters to download and print to publicize the petition: | |
| http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-200614004325.png | |
| http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-190614205808.png | |
| Here is the link to the petition: | |
| http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ai3Tb | |
| http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-300614160245.gif<br | |
| /> | |
| http://www.pic4ever.com/images/computer3.gif | |
| For those who don't wish to bother signing or are concerned for | |
| your "privacy". Hello? Hello? This is the year 2014! By 2030 | |
| periods where the "Humid Heat Stroke Index" is so high that the | |
| human body can no longer maintain a normal core temperature will | |
| become common. Home Sap is on the short list for extinction! | |
| That is sorta more important than hiding from the NSA or the CIA | |
| now ISN'T IT? And I DO NOT see ANY of the home addresses or | |
| e-mail addresses anyway, Care2 does! So, if you CARE about | |
| future generations, you have ZERO excuse, unless you are a | |
| bought and paid for climate denying, war profiteering LOW LIFE | |
| GREEDBALL, for NOT signing. | |
| Sign this for the sake of common decency and future generations | |
| (and pass this on to everyone you care about to sign too!) or | |
| resign yourself to the fact that you are a NIHILSTIC DEATH CULT | |
| ACCESSORY to the HOMO SAP SUICIDE. | |
| Petition link: | |
| http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/Ai3Tb | |
| #Post#: 1558-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Young American Jew Stands Up For Palestine Youth! | |
| By: AGelbert Date: July 18, 2014, 9:45 pm | |
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMwyuEk9u_I&feature=player_embedded | |
| It's GREAT to see a good person standing up for decent Jews | |
| everywhere. There will be more, A LOT MORE! Jews of the world, | |
| STOP THE BARBARIC BS in Israel! Don't send them another Shekel | |
| until they clean up their act! | |
| http://www.pic4ever.com/images/cowboypistol.gif | |
| #Post#: 1586-------------------------------------------------- | |
| US Financial and Political Tap About To Shut Off For Israel Cour | |
| tesy of BRICS | |
| By: AGelbert Date: July 22, 2014, 11:54 pm | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| US Financial and Political Tap About To Shut Off For Israel | |
| Courtesy of BRICS | |
| SNIPPET: | |
| [quote]BRICS countries made pacts and created a new world bank | |
| excluding USA and EU. This is NOT titillating news and does not | |
| make it to prime time but is the biggest news event in the last | |
| decade, maybe even the last 50 years, because it is earth | |
| shattering for the financial systems and will have effects in | |
| every society worldwide. | |
| Now for Israel Firsters, this is major blow because Israel�s | |
| power comes from its complete mastery of the USA and EU | |
| financial and political systems. Without the USA specifically, | |
| Israel is deep trouble. | |
| You see the BRICS do NOT share and will not open its doors to | |
| Zionism. They find Zionism to be antiquated vision that no | |
| relevance to their aims. In short, Zionism has no seat at that | |
| table. | |
| So as BRICS continue to do deals outside the USA/EU and take | |
| away the US Dollar as the reserve currency, the USA will go into | |
| a deep recession like it has NEVER seen before. It will not be | |
| able to �print� more to deal with debt. This is very serious | |
| and has absolute serious repercussions for Israel as the tap for | |
| Israel will be hindered in a profound way. | |
| [/quote] | |
| http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/17/throwing-brics-israel/ | |
| #Post#: 1638-------------------------------------------------- | |
| Hamas Tried to Kill My Wife. I'm Marking that Day by Opposing th | |
| e Gaza War | |
| By: AGelbert Date: July 31, 2014, 10:23 pm | |
| --------------------------------------------------------- | |
| Thu Jul 31, 2014 at 01:28 AM EDT. | |
| 12 Years Ago Today, Hamas Tried to Kill My Wife. I'm Marking | |
| that Day by Opposing the Gaza War. [img width=40 | |
| height=40] | |
| http://www.clker.com/cliparts/c/8/f/8/11949865511933397169thumbs_up_nathan_eady… | |
| /> | |
| by | |
| David Harris Gershon | |
| Originally published in Tikkun Daily | |
| In the weeks since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge, | |
| nearly 1,000 Palestinian civilians have been killed in | |
| unspeakable violence visited upon Gaza by Israeli missiles, | |
| while in Israel three civilians have been killed by Hamas | |
| rockets which have steadily fallen, fortunately harming few.* | |
| Every death has been tragic, each loss amplified by the fact | |
| that this violence, this 'war,' did not have to be. Every | |
| innocent life, taken by the hands of leaders on both sides who | |
| have acted criminally, calls out to us for this conflict to end. | |
| Twelve years ago today, my wife almost became another civilian | |
| tragedy in this ongoing conflict when a Hamas attack nearly took | |
| her life. The two friends of ours with whom she was sitting in a | |
| university cafeteria on July 31, 2002, when a remotely-detonated | |
| bomb went off, were not as fortunate. | |
| Today, as happens every time this day rolls around, I mourn | |
| those friends we lost, just as I mourn the pain my wife endured | |
| in her recovery. But today, twelve years later, feels different | |
| than the previous eleven. As I watch scenes of innocent people | |
| being injured and killed in hospitals, schools, open-air markets | |
| and in their own living rooms, I shudder. | |
| I shudder not just because it is human to do so, but because I | |
| am acutely feeling on this day the absolute horror and | |
| senselessness of the human tragedy which occurred twelve years | |
| ago, and which is taking place repeatedly, by the hour, in Gaza | |
| today. | |
| Israel, the country in which we lived and the country which I | |
| want to see thrive, has been striking civilian targets in Gaza, | |
| a dense, urban strip of land, with much force. It has been doing | |
| so knowing that innocent men, women and children are being | |
| killed, knowing that there is nowhere for residents to flee, | |
| that over 70 percent of those lost in the rubble of downed | |
| apartment buildings and schools are innocent. | |
| And yet it has continued to expand its military operations in a | |
| war history has shown will in no way achieve its stated goals of | |
| achieving quiet and peace. | |
| On the other side, Hamas has been much less successful at | |
| killing innocent Israelis, though it hasn't been from a lack of | |
| trying, as crude rockets have indiscriminately been fired into | |
| Israel daily. Many intercepted by the Iron Dome. Others falling | |
| into desolate areas. All of them hoping to strike innocent | |
| civilians. | |
| I've written previously about my opposition to this Gaza | |
| operation as both a Jew and a progressive American, about the | |
| importance of speaking out and showing empathy for victims on | |
| both sides, Palestinians and Israelis. | |
| I'm not going to rehash political arguments and chronicle events | |
| to demonstrate why both sides are to blame for where we are | |
| today. This isn't the space. | |
| All I simply want to say, as one who has been affected by | |
| violence visited upon civilians, is this: as I mourn today for | |
| what has occurred, I am also mourning for what is occurring, and | |
| for what I fear will continue to occur. | |
| Unless someone steps in and demands that this end. Now. | |
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| http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/07/31/1317947/-12-Years-Ago-Today-Hamas-Trie… | |
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| An Israeli General's son tells the TRUTH! | |
| By: AGelbert Date: August 12, 2014, 9:09 pm | |
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| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etXAm-OylQQ&feature=player_embedded | |
| An Israeli General's son tells the TRUTH! | |
| I took this screen shot and added some of the author's | |
| statements to underline the fact that there is NO WAY people | |
| should ever say, well, the Palestinians do this and that too! | |
| The terrorists ARE the Israelis, PERIOD! It's time for decent | |
| Jews to STOP defending State Sponsored Israeli Terrorism. | |
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| height=580] | |
| http://www.createaforum.com/gallery/renewablerevolution/3-120814232335.png[/img] | |
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